4 November 2024
Comment from GPC England regarding the Autumn Budget statement This week’s budget announcement has left GP partners hugely concerned about the significant rise in employment costs from April 2025 and…
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31 October 2024
When releasing medical records for patients who have moved to another Home Nation (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), only paper medical records should be sent. Please do not send records…
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31 October 2024
Hints and Tips is a quarterly bulletin designed to help our dispensing contractors with their interaction with NHS Prescription Services. Get Hints and Tips straight to your inbox and keep…
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28 October 2024
Health professionals often receive requests from people who wish to access health records. These requests can include requests from patients to view or obtain copies of their own health record…
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25 October 2024
The Government and NHS England have launched ‘Change NHS’, a national conversation which will help to shape the new 10-year plan for the NHS, to be launched next Spring. They…
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24 October 2024
The referral process for access to the Covid treatment pathway (CMDU) is changing. This is a pathway that supports non-hospitalised patients who are at high-risk of developing severe complications from…
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22 October 2024
The updated PCN DES bringing in the GP ARRS was released last week. GPs employed via the Scheme must be within 2 years of their CCT on 1/10/24 and PCNs…
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15 October 2024
The LMC is regularly involved in representing and supporting doctors who have been identified as having “performance” issues. The LMC has identified a number of themes which recur, and this…
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15 October 2024
Health and social care professionals working across Lincolnshire are reminded that they have access to a dedicated, clinically led single point of access (SPA) to escalate challenges with patients who…
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14 October 2024
Background It is a GMS Contractual requirement for all practices to submit an Annual Return and Review to the commissioner (ICB). The eDEC using NHS England’s Strategic Data Collection Service…
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10 October 2024
The BMA’s “Patients First” campaign focuses on addressing the critical underfunding and workforce challenges in GP practices across England. It calls for urgent investment by 2025/26 to prevent worsening patient…
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7 October 2024
CQC has set out how it will drive the improvements needed to re-build trust in our regulation. This involves making immediate changes to support their response to the recommendations in…
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